Abal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/abal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Abal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 5.6K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 22K
- ESSpain1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,094 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Abal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
2,094 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Abal is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, guarantee (legal assurance of something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ify, a black and yellow striped beetle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bts, footpath for human
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tcs, pandanus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tbl, shoulder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Wolof, to lend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tei Abalb. 1932PGPapua New Guinean politician
- Javier Metholb. 1935UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan businessman
- Juan Manuel Abal Medinab. 1945ARArgentine politician and lawyer
- Fernando Abal Medinab. 1947ARArgentinian political activist (1947-1970)
- Alejandro Abal Oliúb. 1948UYUruguayan lawyer and university teacher
- Diego Abalb. 1950UYUruguayan photographer
- Sam Abalb. 1958PGPapua New Guinean politician
- Francisco Xavier Redondo Abalb. 1964ESSpanish historian
- Diego Abalb. 1971ARfootball referee
- Daniel Lede Abalb. 1976DEGerman politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #2,338 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #2,337 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 607 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Abal?
- A machine transcription gives /abal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Abal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Abal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abal.
- Where is Abal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abal is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.6 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,094 people named Abal, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Abal compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Abal is the 781st most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Abal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abal” — the 781st most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.